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Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe

Dunnzlaff, Lina - 2010

-Saxon countries. For Eastern Europe, our results are less definite. Looking at the impact of the tax and benefit schemes in the EU, it …

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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences : Evidence for Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...

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Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and the period of...

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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

Europe …

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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : US Vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2009

in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …

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Health Risk Factors Among the Older European Populations : Personal and Country Effects

García-Muñoz, Teresa - 2014

2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum …

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Micro and Macro Determinants of Health : Older Immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie F. - 2015

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …

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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa - 2012

sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility : Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment

David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2021

. Finally, observing that individuals in the South of Europe appear to accumulate more local social capital, while in Northern … Europe they tend to invest in more general types of social capital, we argue that part of the European unemployment puzzle …

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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility : A Theory

David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2021

In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not move to another region. Reciprocally, once local social capital is accumulated, incentives to...

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